# Ptolemy: Geography [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 4802\) ## Commentary Ptolemy: Geography c. 1470 Manuscript \(Ms. lat. 4802\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris This manuscript is a copy of Ptolemy's Geography. It was commissioned in Florence in about 1470 for Alfonso of Calabria. Claudius Ptolemy \(c. 100-after 160\) was a Greco-Roman writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. His maps and writings represent the peak achievement of Greek geography. Approximately 52 manuscripts are known, the oldest dates from the 10th century. This manuscript includes a map of Florence on folio 132v, shown here. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()